A hundred-plus kids in a Thornlands skatepark in the rain, the whole show finishing on one power cable. Deadtrigger came back, and it didn't read as a comeback. It read as the scene starting a new count.
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1950 to 1980. Four state-school kids press five hundred copies of ‘(I’m) Stranded’ in 1976, and the first venue, Club 76, gets a brick through the window. Where it all starts.
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1978 to 2018. Cloudland comes down, the 4ZZZ siege, then the long flat stretch and the drought, the decades the all-ages scene mostly went unrecorded.
2018 to 2022. Kaleb Collings and Casualty Records pull the scene back up, the Peace Centre years, and the all-ages circuit at its loudest.
2023 to 2024. Deadtrigger and the next generation pick it up, the bayside wave, SkatePUNK, and the kids who ran it before anyone clapped.
2024 to 2026. The scene goes quiet, then this winter the kids start hiring halls again. How it died, and how it got back up.
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